Description: He is lean but muscular and wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His black crest, when down, is lengthy. He has gold eyes and a green hat with a white feather.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has all his life been fascinated with dancing.

History: The child of a Shepherd, who enjoyed hunting, Heskan was taken on many hunting expeditions. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 2300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Healer but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Pacifist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 270 pp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (30 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2500 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (30 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1600 gp).

Description: She typically wears yellow cloth garments or leather armor. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. She has gray eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born to a Knight, her father struggled to pay the bills. Maiathah abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 380 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She wears professional attire. She carries a battered sai and tarnished trident as well. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length brass crest. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Farideh fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 2'11" eastern man, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a red coat. His brown hair is singed and shortened. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: Fargas was born the youngest of three triplets. After coming to the age of reason, Fargas took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Banker and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy orange fur. She wears bulky brown painted plate armor. She has a hunchback. Her orange fur is knotted and matted. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Addict, Mundane. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1200 gp. Onyx (80 gp).